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MEE X@W1EL20 ©W ME NEM, =NETT EMNE12, RR@ HAMM Limi5 HORN@ P. Maxim to Dr. Robert J. Davis -- 'Tear-End Report' -- Page 2. According to TELICOM, approximately 90 ISPE members now have online systems, as indicated by their e-mail add This means that about 600 members do not MEE X@W1EL20 ©W have online systems, and hence cannot 'download" the new Roster, or any other materials that are being disseminated via the DES network. Doesn't it seem as though this arrangement is discriminatory, and is creating • 'two class" system ME NEM, =NETT within ISPE? In other words, the online members are clearly enjoying greater privileges, and accessibility to information, than the 'offline" members. I personally have nothing against technology, and recognise it as the 'wave of the future,' but at the same time I am 'struck by ISPE's failure to acknowledge, EMNE12, RR@ or confront, the problems that are being created by this de facto discriminatior Consequently. I recommend that the Society immediately esEibniire committee to study the impact of online systems on its operations, and that input on this sul HAMM liMI5 ject be solicited from the membership at large. 3. NOESIS as a Vehicle for Dialog. / recently became affiliated with the Mega sEsairi, as a IUSWEEibil and contributor to its journal, NOESIS. As you EDITOR may be . this Society is somewhat smaller than ISPE, but its journal is R. Rosner nonetheless an excellent publication, and provides a truly open forum, in which contributors can address each other without editorial repression or censorship. 5711 Rhodes Ave This is why I am publishing my Report to you in NOESIS, and not in TELICOM. N. Hollywood CA 91607-1627 since I know that, if I submitted it to ISPE's journal, it would never appear 1: print. I notice that you, yourself, have made no contributions to TZLICOM over (818) 985-5230 the past few years, and hence I wonder whether you also have been precluded fro publishing your submissions therein. Note: Dues remain $2.00 per issue, payable to Rosner, not Mega or Noesis. You still A few years ago, I was informed, by Mr. Do earn one issue per two pages of published items. Please submit mucho (concise, cakis, that you had an extremely high ig, which I was very gratified to learn. But even if you don't measure up to Mega Society's admissions standards, you interesting) material. are nonetheless welcome to subscribe to NOESIS, and I cordially invite you to (I recently received a small item concerning a guy ejaculating in his pants. I've do so -- in fact. I am willing to buy you • subscription for 1996. My thought learned from running my own material in that vein that it angers too many readers. is that, if you are willing, we could carry on • dialog therein concerning key issues in ISPE and the high-IQ community, free from TELICOM's editorial inter- So, no more stuff about spoojing unless it's so damn wonderful it cannot be denied.) ference. Will you accept my offer? IN THIS ISSUE: Wishing you • Nappy New Year, I roma Sid direly yours, LETTER FROM CHRIS LANGAN TO ROBERT DICK att,t,VkAY (A- NORMING #1 OF THE LANGDON INT. GRADIENT HIGH-RANGE TEST THE MOBIUS TEST, BY CYRIL EDWARDS AND KEVIN LANGDON LETTER FROM PAUL MAXIM HOW INTELLIGENT IS ISPE? BY PAUL MAXIM ges comment-Some Nona readers receive many otter high-I0 journals Some LETTER FROM PAUL MAXIM DISSING KEVIN LANGDON'S ICI receive only Mrs because it avoids much of the pcticaI wiranghng seen in other ACCOMPANIED BY MATERIAL WRITTEN BY KEVIN LANGDON high-10 publications I don't want to do much censorship. neither do I want • whole lot ot ISPE business transacted in NOOLS THE KORMES CASE AND ITS AFTERMATH, BY PAUL MAXIM LETTER FROM PAUL MAXIM TO SOME ISPE GUY ABOUT, AMONG OTHER THINGS, USING NOESIS AS AN OPEN FORUM Magni Meant- .1 IS March 1555 floe 25 LETTER FROM CHRIS LANGAN TO ROBERT DICK Dear Bob Dick: I'm pleased that you've replied to my letter in a more or less coherent way, at least as regards form That is, content aside, you put your remarks in a way that seems to admit of meaningful response. I'll proceed in chronological order. ISPE Memo Tot Dr. Robert J. Davis, Trustee, 307 Pleasant Street, Belmont, MA From. Paul Maxim, Fellow, P.O. Box 120, New York, N.Y. 10012-0002 RUSTect: Year-End Report, 1995-96. In your first letter, you begin by inviting me to insult you at will. Inasmuch as you were the one calling me stupid, your invitation seems a bit hypocritical. If insults damage the credibility of those who use 1. /Comes Verdict. / obtained a copy of the Court's Final Ruling in the them, then I suggest that you reassess your own before carrying on. case of John Korman V. ISPE, and by reading it, I concluded that TEL/COM's report on this verdict (September 1995, pp. 6-7) was inadequate and incomplete You say I have a "remarkably short memory But I don't, at least by common standards. What I TXLICOM correctly reported that the Court (ruling in equity, not 'in law') do have had denied Formes' plea for reinstatement into ISPE, following his 1991 expert- is an apparent tendency to overestimate the extent to which others can comprehend and recall what I've sins. However, it failed to note other, even more important portions of the written. If I err, it would seem that I err in your favor. ,JMcj&s ruling, such as the followings You say you don't know what I mean by "reality' In light of our interaction to date, I confess that this 'UPS has not complied with the terms of its own Charter when it purported doesn't surprise me Reality is defined on two mathematical concepts, to expel Plaintiff. There is no provision in the Charter governing the relevance and closure; it is a eXpulsion of members.' (This was obviously written prior to ISPE's adoptiOn mathematical system, generated by cognition, which is closed with respect to relevance. I.e., that which c ';At ndment No, 1,' which specified automatic expulsion for anyone sui40 has an effect that you can perceive is real; by extension, so is anything that has an effect that has...an ci p r effect that can affect either you or that which you can ultimately affect. Nothing else is. This "recursive 'Cushing's Manual (of Parliamentary rrectime) provides members wits definition" requires a set of careful qualifications, but suffices for purposes of logical analysis. Notice that the right to both prior notice and an opportunity to defend against char s. it is a doorway through which all kinds of fantasy and irrationality can gain access to reality, given only a Since this procedure is incorporated into (ISPE's) Charter. the Board of Trustees exceeded its authority in the manner in which it purported to e I foothold in the mind of an intelligent creature such as you...to which, however, they are confined in "(Plaintiff). By expelling Mr. Kormes without affording him any opportun y certain important respects. to contest any allegations, in direct conflict with the Charter provision% incorporating Cushing's Manual, Mr. Kormes has been deprived of his contrac- Next you admit that your remarks have been "rather hostile". I commend your honesty. tual rights by the unilateral decision of the ISPE Board of Trustees.' ruling, as I understand it, also found fault with ISPE's 1990 expulsion of You profess indifference to the physical thrust of Newcomb's paradox, then claim interest in its "religious Clint Williams, for the same reasons as were cited in the instance of John Kar- and interpersonal" aspects. Yet, any religion which fails to account for physics, especially as it relates to nes ---- that is, Williams had been expelled via unilateral action of the free will, is a joke. Personalities, of course, have no bearing whatsoever. Board of Trustees, and had not been accorded either a hearing or a presentation of charges, or an opportunity of defending himself against the charges before an impartial panel. You claim I garbled your remarks about the Pope and Mensa. I disagree. While I concur that the reigning I am having some difficulty understanding why TELICOM Pope is relatively intelligent, he is a human being with a weighty interest in denying and suppressing any chose to publish such • one-sided account of the Court's decision in this case. ideology which, by claiming logical dominion over his own, provides an avenue through which his "divine After all, this is the first time that any of ISPE's member expulsions has been authority' might be challenged. This would seem to render otiose any attempt to convert him to a subjected to judicial review; in other words, the Court's ruling represents an disinterested way of thinking. Second, religious language - especially as Popes are wont to use it - extremely important document as regards ISPE's policies and governance. In appeals more to tradition and the emotions than to logic and the intellect. Thus, regardless of his light of this, shouldn't the verdict have been published in full, so that all members could read it? /f TELICOM publishes a slanted or onitileed account of personal saintliness and intelligence, the Pope is unlikely to display much understanding towards the verdict, and if some member (such as myself) subsequently discovers that anything that falls outside an artificially narrow range of discourse (with due respect to the papacy of there was more to the verdict than was repeated, doesn't this tend to cast John Paul II.
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